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- What makes Google’s efforts so striking is that the firm has long had a reputation for caring far more about algorithms than aesthetics. In 2009 Douglas Bowman, its top designer, quit and complained that Google’s obsession with data was preventing it from listening to its designers. In a farewell missive, he wrote that it was hard to work in a culture that insisted on testing 41 different shades of blue to determine the right colour for web links displayed in search results.
ButterflyEffect · 4330 days ago · link ·
Google has definitely been getting better at aesthetics, and I think that it's a good thing that they have cared more about their functionality. That said, people do like sleek and good looking, and that's what sells the most. Pointing out the aesthetic flaws of Google Glass isn't very fair in my mind, it's a very new technology and the way that it works limits how good it can look, without some very clever engineering.
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thenewgreen · 4329 days ago · link ·
Much like looking at the original computers or even iPods, we will eventually look back at GG and think "wow how gaudy those were". But to me, they're not as bad as some have made them out to be. Once they're ubiquitous, nobody will even notice them. Right now they stick out like a sore thumb.